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The evil of Page Extensible=false; in AL

In this video, I talk about the impact of the Extensible property on pages. How it potentially can create a “vendor lock-in” situation for customers and hinder generic extensions in working. Source : Hougaard.com Read more...

20 August 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Spotify to Business Central integration

Continuing my cycle of posts on basic examples of integrating third-party applications with BC, I decided to choose Spotify API for demonstration. Spotify is a Swedish-based audio streaming and media services provider. It is a pretty popular service and has a very powerful free API with…

19 August 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

How to create a multi-page Wizard in AL

In this video, I show how I created the wizard in the One Field Report. This wizard is created with multiple pages, controlled by a state machine. Source : Hougaard.com Read more...

17 August 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Light PDF Viewer for Business Central (PDF.js)

I have prepared a lightweight ready to use free extension for viewing PDF documents in Business Central. I've heard requests for Microsoft's built-in PDF Viewer on more than one occasion. But since Microsoft is still working on this problem, I found it helpful to make a…

16 August 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Date-Time Dialog

Today I would like to talk about the best practice for entering DataTime values in Dynamics 365 Business Central. First, let’s look at what the DateTime Data Type is. Source : Dynamics 365 Lab Read more...

13 August 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Service to service authentication in Business Central 18.3 – How to use in AL

Because I got the question if it was possible to use the client credentials flow in Business Central I decided to write a quick blog post about that as well. Codeunit OAuth2 provides a number of functions to acquire access tokens with different authorization flows, including…

12 August 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

One Field Report – Extreme Edition

Have you ever created a (process only) report to do data manipulation? Well, of course, you have? We all have 🙂 I decided to create a generic “report” that can handle all these different tasks. And if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing, so here’s where…

11 August 2021